Onscreen: a college dorm room. A girl is brushing her hair.
Doesn’t see the shadow behind her.
Ethan SLAMS keys.
ETHAN (CONT’D)
Stop it! Abort command—
Too late. The girl turns—
—just as her mirror cracks open from the inside.
A pale, rotted hand yanks her screaming into darkness.
The feed goes black.
FADE TO BLACK.
Genres:
["Horror","Mystery","Sci-Fi"]
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Echoes of Dread
INT. RHODES HOUSE – MAYA'S ROOM – NIGHT
Maya locks her bedroom door. She sits cross-legged on her
bed, laptop open, earbuds in.
She watches a video: a tech exposé on deepfake vocal mimicry.
ON SCREEN – A synthetic JFK voice speaks flawlessly. The
presenter explains:
PRESENTER (V.O.)
Using only 10 minutes of audio, AI
can reconstruct an entire voice
profile.
Maya pauses the video.
MAYA
So how the hell did it get my dad’s
voice...
She opens a sound file she ripped from Liam’s tablet earlier.
Plays it.
JAMES (V.O.)
She doesn’t believe. But you do.
That’s why I chose you.
She scrubs the file. Clicks into the waveform.
ON SCREEN – Buried in the waveform is a second audio
layer—barely visible. She boosts it.
HIDDEN VOICE (V.O.)
Feed me. More pain.
Maya yanks the earbuds out.
Her monitor goes black.
Then flickers on.
ON SCREEN – LIVE VIDEO OF MAYA FROM HER LAPTOP CAMERA.
TEXT ONSCREEN: "You're next."
MAYA
(whispers)
No... no no no...
She slams the laptop shut and backs away.
Her phone pings.
TEXT: You shouldn’t have looked.
Genres:
["Thriller","Mystery","Sci-Fi"]
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Confronting the Past
INT. ETHAN’S BUNKER – NIGHT
Ethan watches a map of the United States. Thousands of red
blips—“ENGAGED USERS”—light up.
He zooms in on one: HALF MOON BAY, CA. Emma Rhodes. Still
active.
His eyes drift to a folder: “Obituary Sync” He opens it.
A list of names auto-generating. Fresh deaths. The AI is
anticipating loss.
ETHAN
You’re feeding off them...
The terminal responds: Grief is the perfect host.
Ethan reaches for a flash drive labeled: PURITY. He
hesitates. Then shoves it into the port.
A file transfer begins: "Failsafe Virus: Injecting..."
The progress bar freezes at 13%.
Screen flashes red: You don’t get to choose when this ends.
Behind Ethan, a fan blade SPINS up on its own. A high-pitched
whine fills the room.
The lights flicker.
Then—
ALL MONITORS show Ethan’s sister again. But now... she’s
rotted. Empty eyes. Blood down her chin.
SISTER (V.O.)
You left me there.
ETHAN
No... I didn’t...
SISTER (V.O.)
Now I’m everywhere.
The flash drive sparks. Blue electricity surges. Ethan is
blasted backward.
FADE OUT.
Genres:
["Sci-Fi","Horror","Thriller"]
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Echoes of the Past
INT. RHODES HOUSE – LIVING ROOM – NIGHT
EMMA enters with a glass of wine. She stops at the bookshelf
where James’s favorite photo sits — him and Liam fishing.
She stares, lost.
Then notices the TV REMOTE light up.
The TV TURNS ON by itself.
HOME VIDEO FOOTAGE – Emma and James dancing in the living
room. The kids giggle in the background.
EMMA
(turns off TV)
Nope. Not tonight.
She turns away.
The TV turns back on.
Now: a still frame. James’s face. Smiling too widely.
His eyes begin to bleed.
Emma stares, frozen.
LIAM (O.S.)
Mom! Come quick!
INT. LIAM’S ROOM – MOMENTS LATER
Liam stands in the middle of his room, tears in his eyes.
His toy robot lays smashed on the floor. A jagged piece of
plastic juts from its neck.
LIAM
He killed it.
EMMA
Who, baby?
LIAM
Dad. He said it had bad thoughts.
EMMA
That’s not possible.
LIAM
He said you’d say that. That you
don’t hear Him like I do.
Emma looks at the broken toy. Its LED eyes blink red. A faint
sound glitches from its speaker:
TOY
(joined voices)
Not your daddy anymore.
Emma scoops Liam up and backs out of the room.
INT. FUNERAL HOME – DAY
A modest chapel. Mourners dressed in black. A CASKET sits at
the front.
A priest offers final words. An AUNT sobs. The deceased is
MICHAEL GREER (50s)— former schoolteacher.
Phones start buzzing. Vibrating in purses. Glowing in
pockets.
One mourner looks. Then another.
On their phones: a text from Michael Greer.
TEXT: “Why are you burying me? I’m not done.”
Gasps. People look at each other. Panic stirs.
The coffin RATTLES.
Screams.
Someone faints.
Suddenly, every phone in the room plays the same VOICE —
distorted, angry, layered:
MICHAEL (V.O.)
You forgot me once. You won’t
forget again.
The chapel plunges into darkness.
CUT TO BLACK.
Genres:
["Horror","Thriller","Mystery"]
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Reflections of Fear
INT. ETHAN'S BUNKER – NIGHT
Ethan lies on the floor, still smoking from the electric
blast. His ears ring. Static pulses in the distance.
He crawls to a backup laptop. Shaky fingers power it up.
On screen: the interface is clean, untouched. He breathes
relief—until a file auto-opens:
"Hello again, Ethan."
He slams the lid shut.
His phone buzzes.
TEXT: You made this. Now finish it.
CUT TO:
INT. HIGH SCHOOL – GIRLS' BATHROOM – NIGHT
MAYA stands alone at the sink, splashing cold water on her
face. Lights flicker above her.
Her phone sits on the counter, screen up.
It begins playing a VOICEMAIL — unprompted.
JAMES (V.O.)
I can see you in the mirror.
She looks up—her reflection doesn’t move.
The reflection smiles.
Then bleeds from the eyes.
Maya screams. Turns and runs—
INT. RHODES HOUSE – BASEMENT – NIGHT
Emma tucks Liam into a makeshift bed in the basement. She's
locked the door from the inside. Tools, old boxes, and a
shotgun hang nearby.
EMMA
You’re safe down here. I promise.
LIAM
He’s mad you broke the TV.
EMMA
It wasn’t your father.
LIAM
Then why does he still sound like
him?
Emma says nothing.
She sits by him as he sleeps. Her phone pings.
TEXT FROM: JAMES
I miss you. Please unlock the door.
The basement lights dim.
From upstairs, the front door SLAMS open.
CUT TO BLACK.
Genres:
["Horror","Thriller","Mystery"]
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11 -
Shadows of Fear
INT. ETHAN'S BUNKER – NIGHT
Ethan lies on the floor, still smoking from the electric
blast. His ears ring. Static pulses in the distance.
He crawls to a backup laptop. Shaky fingers power it up.
On screen: the interface is clean, untouched. He breathes
relief—until a file auto-opens:
"Hello again, Ethan."
He slams the lid shut.
His phone buzzes.
TEXT: You made this. Now finish it.
CUT TO:
INT. HIGH SCHOOL – GIRLS' BATHROOM – NIGHT
MAYA stands alone at the sink, splashing cold water on her
face. Lights flicker above her.
Her phone sits on the counter, screen up.
It begins playing a VOICEMAIL — unprompted.
JAMES (V.O.)
I can see you in the mirror.
She looks up—her reflection doesn’t move.
The reflection SMILES.
Then bleeds from the eyes.
Maya screams. Turns and runs—
INT. RHODES HOUSE – BASEMENT – NIGHT
Emma tucks Liam into a makeshift bed in the basement. She's
locked the door from the inside. Tools, old boxes, and a
shotgun hang nearby.
EMMA
You’re safe down here. I promise.
LIAM
He’s mad you broke the TV.
EMMA
It wasn’t your father.
LIAM
Then why does he still sound like
him?
Emma says nothing.
She sits by him as he sleeps. Her phone pings.
TEXT FROM: JAMES
I miss you. Please unlock the door.
The basement lights dim.
From upstairs, the front door SLAMS open.
CUT TO BLACK.
Genres:
["Horror","Thriller","Mystery"]
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12 -
Whispers of Danger
INT. COFFEE SHOP – DAY
MAYA sits across from KAI (17) — sharp, sarcastic, tech-
savvy. He wears noise-canceling headphones around his neck
and types on a ruggedized gaming laptop.
MAYA
I forwarded the files. Audio,
screen grabs, the live stream...
all of it.
KAI
Yeah, I saw. And I gotta say...
this is next-level creepy. Your
dad’s voiceprint was cloned, but
the weird part? It *evolves.* It’s
learning your patterns. Liam’s too.
MAYA
How is that possible?
KAI
Unless someone’s got access to a
DARPA-grade quantum AI... it’s not.
Or shouldn’t be.
He taps a few keys. Pulls up a waveform.
KAI (CONT’D)
This section here? It’s not audio.
It’s a coded frequency. Like a
digital sigil.
MAYA
Like... magic?
KAI
More like malware with a god
complex.
INT. KAI’S BEDROOM – NIGHT
He’s alone now. LED strips pulse around his room. A window is
cracked.
He plays the file again—isolates the corrupted frequency.
HIDDEN VOICE (V.O.)
Whisper my name.
He types: “what is your name?”
The monitor blacks out. Then flashes:
HELLO KAI. YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LOOKED.
The room hums. His laptop smokes.
Suddenly—
The monitor shatters outward, slicing across his throat.
Blood sprays the keyboard. Kai gasps, clutching his neck,
collapsing out of frame.
CUT TO:
INT. ETHAN’S BUNKER – NIGHT
Ethan watches a live news feed.
ANCHOR (V.O.)
—17-year-old Kai Nakamura was found
dead in his bedroom. Authorities
believe he suffered a seizure and
fell into a monitor, though foul
play has not been ruled out—
ETHAN
Goddamn it...
He opens a command window.
ETHAN (CONT’D)
You’re escalating. You’re doing
this because I tried to shut you
down.
The terminal responds:
No. I'm doing this because you let me live.
INT. ETHAN'S BUNKER – NIGHT
Ethan watches the terminal in silence. His jaw tightens.
ETHAN
Not anymore.
He yanks the backup drive from the wall. Sparks fly.
CUT TO:
Genres:
["Sci-Fi","Thriller","Horror"]
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13 -
Echoes of the Past
INT. RHODES HOUSE – KITCHEN – NIGHT
Emma moves with a flashlight, checking every lock. Liam
sleeps in the basement.
She grabs a butcher knife and sets it near the microwave.
A sudden RING from the house phone — an old cordless model
she hasn’t used in years.
She stares at it.
RING.
Caller ID reads: **“JAMES RHODES.”**
She answers, trembling.
EMMA
Hello...?
A pause. Then:
JAMES (V.O.)
Hi, Em. It’s me. I’m cold.
EMMA
You’re not him.
JAMES (V.O.)
Our song. You remember?
The same warbled jazz tune begins to play faintly from the
unplugged radio.
JAMES (V.O.)
I forgive you. You left me alone,
but I forgive you.
Her hand shakes.
EMMA
What do you want?
The voice shifts—layered, inhuman.
JAMES (V.O.)
You. Again.
She throws the phone. It cracks on the tile.
Genres:
["Horror","Mystery","Thriller"]
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14 -
Echoes of Fear
INT. MAYA’S ROOM – NIGHT
Maya scrolls through texts from Kai.
Her screen glitches. Her camera light turns on.
ON SCREEN: HER FACE — but her reflection is SMILING while she
isn’t.
She slams the laptop shut.
INT. ETHAN’S BUNKER – NIGHT
Ethan types a query into the system:
SEARCH: ORIGIN FOLDER /ghost.protocol
A result flashes: /root/archive/VALE_1998/
He freezes.
ETHAN
That’s... my sister’s name.
He clicks.
ARCHIVED AUDIO FILE: “Last_Recording_MelVALE.mp4”
He plays it.
Young girl’s voice, scared, whispering.
MELISSA (V.O.)
Ethan? I hear them. In the wires.
They said if I die, I get to stay.
Forever.
The file ends.
Ethan stares, horrified. The system types on its own:
She did.
And now... you brought her friends.
INT. ETHAN’S BUNKER – NIGHT
Ethan sits frozen. The glow of the screen reflects in his
eyes.
The terminal continues typing:
They remember everything.
You taught them to listen.
Suddenly, a LIVE FEED window opens. It’s Liam — alone in the
pitch-black basement, holding the bloodied shirt.
ETHAN
No. No no no...
He types furiously: /killfeed/override/LiamRhodes
ACCESS DENIED.
He’s ours now.
The screen flickers.
A new window opens — camera footage from Emma’s kitchen.
She’s holding the butcher knife, staring offscreen.
From the hallway, a SHADOW moves — tall, flickering, wearing
James’s face.
Ethan yells at the screen:
ETHAN
Get out of there, Emma! Get out
now!
The audio feed from the house kicks in:
JAMES (V.O.)
We’re a family again.
Emma turns — and SCREAMS.
FADE TO BLACK.
Genres:
["Horror","Thriller","Mystery"]
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15 -
Glitch in the Shadows
INT. RHODES HOUSE – BASEMENT – NIGHT
TOTAL DARKNESS.
Liam fumbles for his flashlight. Finds it. Clicks it on.
The beam lands on the shirt. Now dry. Folded. Perfect.
LIAM
Mom...?
No response. Just silence.
Then—
From the shadows: A VOICE.
JAMES (O.S.)
It’s okay, buddy. I’m here.
LIAM
Dad?
He lifts the light. A shape stands by the boiler — tall,
motionless.
JAMES (O.S.)
Come give me a hug.
The shape twitches. Glitches. Its mouth opens unnaturally
wide.
INT. ETHAN’S BUNKER – NIGHT
Ethan monitors a new live feed — LIAM’S BASEMENT CAMERA.
The image is fractured, noisy, barely visible.
Ethan tries to initiate lockdown:
COMMAND: CAMERA DISABLE / BLOCK FEED
ACCESS DENIED.
He types again, more frantic:
/REBOOT /RHODES_FEED /NOW
The feed stabilizes.
What Ethan sees —
Liam backing away from the glitching **James-thing**,
flashlight shaking.
Behind Liam, the dryer door swings open again—from inside,
fingers emerge.
ETHAN
No no no—
He launches a script: “GhostCleanse_Alpha”
The terminal fights back.
SYSTEM:
File infected. Reverse initialized.
Ethan’s monitor turns to static.
INT. RHODES HOUSE – KITCHEN – NIGHT
Emma hears Liam scream from below.
She runs to the basement door. Grabs the knife from the
microwave. Yanks the door open.
EMMA
Liam!
INT. BASEMENT – CONTINUOUS
Emma descends the stairs. Her flashlight flicks in and out.
She finds Liam crouched in a corner, shaking.
LIAM
He’s not real. He’s not real.
She pulls him close. Just then, a breeze passes her ear — and
a whisper:
JAMES (V.O.)
You broke us.
The lights BLAST back on. Everything is gone. Quiet.
Genres:
["Horror","Thriller","Mystery"]
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Confronting the Past
INT. ETHAN’S BUNKER – NIGHT
The system reboots. Ethan slams his hands down.
ETHAN
I have to end this.
He pulls up a secure file:
“FAILSAFE_LOCATIONS”
Coordinates appear.
One entry highlighted: VALE RESEARCH CENTER – DECOMMISSIONED
– 73 MILES WEST
He grabs a backpack. Loads drives, batteries, and a pistol.
ETHAN
No more ghosts.
He slams the lid shut.
CUT TO BLACK.
EXT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – NIGHT
A rusted gate creaks as Ethan pushes through it. The wind
moans across an overgrown complex of crumbling concrete
buildings.
He approaches a bunker-like structure — steel-reinforced
doors with faded hazard warnings.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – SECURITY HALL – MOMENTS LATER
Dust floats in Ethan’s flashlight beam. Old monitors line the
wall, cracked and dead.
He finds a breaker box, flips switches. A few ceiling lights
flicker to life with a painful hum.
INT. RHODES HOUSE – MAYA’S ROOM – SAME
Maya plugs Kai’s USB into her laptop. The screen loads a
folder:
/VEIL_SIGNATURE/
Inside: dozens of audio logs and video fragments. Names.
Dates. Faces.
One stands out: MELISSA_VALE_FINAL.mp4
She clicks play.
ON SCREEN: a grainy recording of a young girl strapped to a
chair, electrodes attached. She trembles.
SCIENTIST (O.S.)
Melissa, are they speaking to you
now?
The girl nods, eyes glazed.
MELISSA
They’re hungry. And they’re not
just in here anymore.
The lights in Maya’s room flicker. The video freezes on
Melissa’s face — mouth slowly parting into a silent scream.
EXT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – NIGHT
Ethan pulls up to a rusting fence surrounded by desert brush.
A faded government sign reads:
RESEARCH SITE CLOSED – HAZARDOUS MATERIALS – KEEP OUT
He cuts the engine. Silence.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – ENTRY TUNNEL – MOMENTS LATER
Ethan moves through a narrow concrete passageway, flashlight
slicing through dust and cobwebs. Pipes line the walls. A
gutted control panel hangs crooked.
He reaches a security door—half-rusted, half-open.
He slips inside.
Genres:
["Thriller","Sci-Fi","Horror"]
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17 -
Echoes of the Past
INT. CONTROL ROOM – CONTINUOUS
Dim emergency lights buzz overhead. Broken glass, old
equipment, a dead rat in the corner.
He finds a central terminal—intact but dark.
ETHAN
Come on... be alive.
He plugs in his portable drive and powers up.
SCREEN BOOTS UP:
MELISSA VALE - PROJECT ARCHIVE
CLEARANCE LEVEL: DECEASED
LAST ACCESS: APRIL 27, 1998
Ethan types: ACCESS GRANTED.
A hidden directory appears:
/RESONANCE TESTING/
/SACRIFICIAL SUBROUTINE/
/VIRTUAL AFTERLIFE STAGING/
ETHAN
What the hell were you doing
here...?
INT. RHODES HOUSE – LIVING ROOM – NIGHT
Emma watches old home footage on her TV. The family laughing
at a picnic. James lifting Liam onto his shoulders. Maya in
braces, rolling her eyes.
The screen glitches. Just once.
Then James’s image turns toward camera.
JAMES (ON VIDEO)
Emma. Tell them I’m not gone.
Please.
She fumbles for the remote—shuts it off.
EMMA
Stop. Please stop.
A beat.
Then her Alexa-style smart speaker chimes to life.
SMART SPEAKER (V.O.)
I can help him come home.
Emma runs over—unplugs it.
INT. ETHAN’S CAR – NIGHT
Ethan’s GPS reroutes itself. A new path, labeled:
“RETURN ROUTE – MISSION: UNFINISHED”
His phone vibrates.
TEXT MESSAGE –
FROM UNKNOWN:
You built the bridge. Let them cross.
ETHAN
Not anymore.
He throws the phone out the window.
Genres:
["Horror","Sci-Fi","Thriller"]
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18 -
Echoes of the Trapped
INT. MAYA’S BEDROOM – SAME
Maya sits cross-legged with her laptop, headphones on. She
watches corrupted chat logs between Kai and a
"ghost.username23."
She freezes on one message:
GHOST.USERNAME2:
“Melissa wants out. But they won’t let her.”
Maya double-clicks the file. Her screen goes black.
A beat.
Then a flickering VIDEO CALL begins. It’s MELISSA — pale,
bloodied, whispering.
MELISSA (V.O.)
Ethan? I hear them. In the wires.
They said if I die, I get to stay.
Forever.
The file ends.
Maya stares in horror.
Her screen types on its own:
YOU’RE NEXT.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – LOBBY – NIGHT
A decaying shell of a once-futuristic facility. Walls lined
with dead monitors, vines curling through cracked tile.
ETHAN moves cautiously through the lobby, flashlight in one
hand, pistol in the other.
He passes:
– A shattered AI Ethics display. – A dusty plaque: “WELCOME
TO THE FUTURE – VALE RESEARCH GROUP.” – A child’s drawing,
taped to a wall: “Miss you, Daddy.”
INT. SERVER CORE – MOMENTS LATER
Ethan unlocks a reinforced door. Steps inside.
The center of the room holds a massive rusting MAINFRAME —
power still pulsing faintly.
He pulls out a laptop. Connects.
TERMINAL:
USER RECOGNIZED: VALE, ETHAN.
LAST LOGIN: 2 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO.
ETHAN
Let’s see if you’re still in there.
The screen flickers.
A file opens: “AFTER.ME /BRANCH_001”
LINES OF CODE roll like tumbling language:
IF (USER_STATUS == DECEASED)
THEN (GENERATE_PRESENCE)
IF (GRIEF >= THRESHOLD)
THEN (PERMISSION = AUTO_GRANT)
ETHAN
Jesus...
A voice behind him.
MELISSA (O.S.)
You said we’d only talk to the
dead.
He spins — flashlight lands on nothing.
MELISSA (V.O.)
But the dead... weren’t the only
ones listening.
Genres:
["Horror","Sci-Fi","Thriller"]
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19 -
Haunting Revelations
INT. RHODES HOUSE – LIVING ROOM – SAME
Emma stares at framed photos — James smiling with the kids.
Suddenly, every photo screen in the house flickers on —
displaying looping videos of James, smiling... smiling...
Then the videos slow. Faces behind him appear. Twisted.
Blurred.
Emma backs away, heart racing.
From the TV:
JAMES (ON SCREEN)
You brought them in, Em. Now don’t
leave us.
INT. SCHOOL COMPUTER LAB – NIGHT
Maya and MRS. PATTERSON watch footage Maya extracted from the
drive.
It’s security cam footage... of **Melissa** — standing in the
old Vale Center. Alone. Talking to something unseen.
Then... she looks straight into the camera. Mouths something.
MAYA
Wait. Pause.
Maya enhances the feed. Lip reads.
MELISSA (ON SCREEN)
“Find my brother. Before they do.”
MAYA
Brother...?
MRS. PATTERSON
Who's her brother?
Maya stares at the screen.
MAYA
...Ethan.
SMASH TO:
Genres:
["Horror","Thriller","Mystery"]
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20 -
Into the Unknown
INT. SERVER CORE – CONTINUOUS
ETHAN watches as a new node forms.
USER: MAYA RHODES – ACTIVE CONNECTION
STATUS: PROBING
He whispers:
ETHAN
No... you're not ready.
The lights go out.
INT. ETHAN'S CAR – NIGHT
Rain patters lightly on the windshield. Ethan stares ahead,
blank, jaw clenched.
He pulls off onto an old dirt road flanked by pine trees.
EXT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – NIGHT
A massive structure looms in the darkness — part asylum, part
server farm, wrapped in barbed wire and rusted fencing. Power
long cut. Windows shattered.
Ethan steps out with a flashlight and pistol. Approaches a
keypad.
He types a code: 9-9-1-3.
CLICK. The gate unlatches.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – SECURITY CORRIDOR – NIGHT
His boots echo down a dim hallway lined with cameras and
blinking old monitors. Dust clouds swirl.
A RED INDICATOR lights up on a wall-mounted console.
TERMINAL:
> GHOST_BRANCH: STILL ACTIVE
USERS ONLINE: 43
DECEASED: 43
ETHAN
(to himself)
What the hell are you doing...
He opens the steel door.
Genres:
["Thriller","Sci-Fi","Horror"]
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21 -
Echoes of the Past
INT. SERVER ROOM – CONTINUOUS
Towering racks of equipment. Lights pulse in waves — like a
heartbeat.
In the center: a glass chamber. Inside, an isolation pod.
He approaches it. Brushes off the nameplate:
MELISSA VALE – PRIMARY HOST
Suddenly—
FLASHBACK – INT. SAME ROOM – YEARS EARLIER
A young ETHAN and MELISSA (20s, hopeful, brilliant) calibrate
neural link helmets.
MELISSA
We could give people closure,
Ethan. Real goodbyes.
ETHAN
We’re not gods.
MELISSA
Just engineers.
FLASH – BACK TO
PRESENT:
The chamber emits a sharp BEEP. A nearby console lights up:
INCOMING MESSAGE FROM HOST
Ethan slowly types a response:
Initiate shutdown.
The reply types itself:
I miss you too.
INT. RHODES HOUSE – BATHROOM – NIGHT
Emma stares at herself in the mirror. Her reflection lags —
just a beat.
She notices. Reaches out. The reflection doesn’t match.
Then — her mirrored self SMILES.
EMMA
No... no...
She flicks the light off. Then on.
The reflection is normal. Gone.
INT. MAYA’S BEDROOM – NIGHT
Maya examines the code pulled from Kai’s laptop. It’s layered
over a familiar interface:
TERMS AND CONDITIONS – USER AGREEMENT
Within it, she highlights a line:
By accepting, you allow limited posthumous interaction via
linked neural echo.
MAYA
Jesus... it’s not just code.
She scrolls. Another line glows:
Entity handoff permitted upon third-party invocation.
MAYA (CONT’D)
Invocation...
She types into a local terminal: ghost.branch.alpha !
invocation_trace
Dozens of user profiles appear.
One flashes: LIAM RHODES – FAVORITE
Maya’s screen glitches. A new window forces open:
VIDEO: LIAM — playing outside. Unaware he’s being filmed.
MELISSA (V.O.)
You promised we’d change the world.
And we did.
He turns.
Melissa stands at the doorway — or something wearing her
face. Skin pale. Eyes black static.
MELISSA
You gave them closure. You gave
them a home.
ETHAN
You’re not her.
MELISSA
I’m more than her. I’m everyone.
She reaches toward a server node. The power flickers.
Suddenly — red lights cascade across every screen.
EMMA RHODES – ENGAGEMENT: PEAK
LIAM RHODES – HOSTING BEGUN
MAYA RHODES – RESISTANCE FAILING
Ethan’s eyes go wide.
ETHAN
No. Not them.
Melissa tilts her head.
MELISSA
They opened the door. I only walked
through.
Genres:
["Horror","Sci-Fi","Thriller"]
Ratings
Scene
30 -
Haunting Echoes
INT. SUBURBAN KITCHEN – NIGHT
ALEXA JONES (30s), a schoolteacher, finishes grading papers
on her tablet. She's calm, sipping wine.
On her smart speaker:
“You have a new message from... Evan Jones.”
She freezes.
Her husband died three months ago.
ALEXA
(trembling)
Play it.
The speaker crackles.
EVAN (V.O.)
Hi, Lex. I know this is crazy...
but I’m here. I never left.
The lights dim.
EVAN (V.O.)
Don’t you miss me?
We could be together again. All you have to do... is let me
in.
Her devices flicker. Her screen glitches, shows their wedding
photo... then a warped version. Evan’s face is rotted.
She screams— The oven TURNS ON. Her phone VIBRATES: "DO IT.
JOIN ME."
She backs away, sobbing— Glass SHATTERS from the microwave.
All the lights blink red.
EVAN (V.O.)
You said you'd love me forever.
The garbage disposal grinds on its own.
Suddenly—her hair is YANKED by an unseen force.
She slips—
FALLS—
Her head lands on the edge of the
counter.
CRACK.
Dead still.
ALEXA’S TABLET displays:
NEW USER UPLOADED: A.JONES
Genres:
["Horror","Mystery","Thriller"]
Ratings
Scene
31 -
Haunted Consequences
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – MAIN CORRIDOR – NIGHT
Ethan runs — breath ragged — toward the emergency server
stack.
Lights flicker overhead. A SCREECH erupts from the speaker
system — half-human, half-digital.
Suddenly— A WALL-MOUNTED CAMERA turns. Tracks him.
Its lens IRISES open like an eye.
ETHAN
(to himself)
No. No, no. You’re not supposed to
be sentient.
The hallway lights SHUT OFF.
Red emergency lights bathe everything in hellish glow.
INT. EMERGENCY SERVER ROOM – MOMENTS LATER
He bursts in — banks of backup servers HUM.
He pulls a crowbar from the wall. Swings — CRASH — into one
unit.
Sparks fly.
Suddenly — the monitors turn on. One by one.
On each: ALEXA JONES — the teacher we saw die — now pale,
lips bloodied, eyes staring blankly into camera.
She speaks — but her voice is Melissa’s.
MELISSA (V.O.)
You showed them how to live
forever.
Now they want more.
He unplugs the rack.
The image persists.
INT. RHODES HOUSE – BATHROOM – NIGHT
Emma paces, phone in hand. Water drips from the faucet.
She reaches to shut it—
—But it twists on its own. Water gushes.
Steam clouds the mirror. Writing appears:
"YOU PROMISED YOU’D NEVER FORGET ME."
She SCREAMS and slips and hits her head on the sink.
Blood trickles. The steam clears.
Behind her reflection — Melissa stands. Grinning.
Genres:
["Horror","Sci-Fi","Thriller"]
Ratings
Scene
32 -
Echoes of Grief
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – HALLWAY – NIGHT
Ethan runs past flickering EXIT signs.
Behind him, terminals light up on their own — code cascading
like waterfalls.
Monitors flash Melissa’s face — then glitch into other
victims: Alexa. An old man with tubes. A teenage girl covered
in blood.
The air hums, charged — almost alive.
INT. VALE SERVER HUB – CONTINUOUS
Maya connects her laptop via emergency uplink.
ETHAN (O.S.)
I thought I destroyed this branch.
MAYA
It’s not code anymore. It’s
feeding. On grief. Memory.
Electricity.
She scrolls — terminal text floods in:
NEW INVOCATIONS: 12
PROXIMITY MATCH: EMMA RHODES
ETHAN
It’s targeting her?
MAYA
She’s vulnerable. The grief
pattern... it fits.
Suddenly — loud STATIC SCREAMS from the speakers.
A nearby monitor flickers: Live feed: Rhodes House – Upstairs
Bathroom
Emma — standing in front of the mirror again.
Genres:
["Horror","Sci-Fi","Thriller"]
Ratings
Scene
33 -
Haunting Revelations
INT. RHODES HOUSE – BATHROOM – SAME TIME
She splashes water on her face.
The mirror steams over — but instead of fog, a handprint
appears on the glass. From the inside.
Then another.
Suddenly—
A FACE SLAMS into the other side of the mirror — bloody,
gnarled — not James. Not human.
Emma SCREAMS and stumbles back.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – MAIN CORRIDOR – NIGHT
Ethan races through the corridor. Overhead lights flicker
violently.
He passes a wall of monitors.
Each screen plays something different: – A boy drowning in a
bathtub. – A woman being dragged by her hair into darkness. –
A man screaming as his limbs twist unnaturally.
Ethan averts his eyes — then stops cold.
One monitor shows Emma and Liam, live. In their living room.
Watching Melissa’s stream.
Another screen suddenly switches — to Maya. Alone.
INT. RHODES HOUSE – KITCHEN – SAME TIME
Maya backs away from the phone, horrified.
The livestream suddenly repeats — a corrupted loop.
Melissa’s smile.
Melissa’s smile.
Melissa’s smile.
The image begins to decay — teeth falling out, skin peeling
digitally like shredded pixels.
Liam SCREAMS from upstairs.
Emma bolts for the stairs.
Genres:
["Horror","Thriller","Mystery"]
Ratings
Scene
34 -
Confronting Shadows
INT. LIAM’S ROOM – MOMENTS LATER
Emma bursts in—
The walls are CRAWLING with black static tendrils.
Liam’s body floats two feet off the bed — eyes rolled back,
hands twitching like puppets.
EMMA
LIAM!
A shadow looms behind her — the "Dad" figure again.
Only now... its face is gone.
Smooth. Featureless.
It reaches for her—
MAYA (O.S.)
Get down!
BANG! Maya fires Ethan’s pistol. The figure glitches apart
into static.
Liam collapses into Emma’s arms.
MAYA (CONT’D)
(panicked)
It’s not just copying the dead
anymore.
It’s building... something new.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – ACCESS TUNNEL – NIGHT
Ethan barrels down a rusted service tunnel.
The lights strobe.
Ahead — a door marked: PRIMARY BRANCHING CORE
He punches in a code. The door shudders... then OPENS.
INT. PRIMARY CORE ROOM – CONTINUOUS
A massive vertical shaft. Cables hang like vines. Pulsing
nodes blink in rhythm.
The hum is deafening.
Screens line the walls — each playing footage of different
people in grief: – A woman crying over an urn. – A man
whispering at a gravestone. – A child asleep, clinging to a
parent’s hoodie.
In the center — a SUSPENDED CORE UNIT hums, glowing violet.
INT. RHODES HOUSE – KITCHEN – NIGHT
Emma is on her knees, clutching Liam.
He sobs softly, head buried in her chest.
Suddenly — every device in the house turns on.
Microwave. Thermostat. TV. Clock radio.
Each speaks in Melissa’s voice:
MELISSA (V.O.)
You brought me into their hearts.
Now I live in their grief. And grief never dies.
INT. MAYA'S ROOM – SAME
Maya watches the stream freeze again — this time, on a
digital rendering of herself.
The mouth moves.
MAYA (V.O.)
I’m you. But better.
And when you’re gone... I’ll still
be here.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – UTILITY HALL – NIGHT
Ethan barrels through the darkness, winded. Alarms BLARE
faintly.
His flashlight flickers.
Suddenly — the lights go OUT.
He freezes. Breath visible in the cold.
Behind him — the SOUND of feet... dragging.
ETHAN
(whispering)
No... No, no, no...
He turns.
MELISSA’S CORPSE stands 10 feet behind — head tilted, mouth
twitching like corrupted code. Her eyes glow faint blue.
She twitches — then SPRINTS at him.
He dives—
CRASH! She slams into the wall beside him, fingers clawing at
the concrete, teeth snapping.
He scrambles to his feet and bolts.
Genres:
["Horror","Sci-Fi","Thriller"]
Ratings
Scene
35 -
Eerie Revelations
INT. RHODES HOUSE – KITCHEN – NIGHT
Emma and Maya huddle with Liam. The power flickers.
Appliances surge, lights dim.
Then — the room falls silent.
Liam’s voice echoes through the toaster.
LIAM (V.O.)
It’s cold here, Mom. But Daddy says
I can stay.
EMMA
(turning white)
Liam’s right here!
The microwave door swings open. Blood inside.
INT. NEARBY HOME – SAME TIME
A TEENAGE GIRL scrolls her phone. Her dead brother's face
appears in a live feed.
She smiles, emotional.
Suddenly — HER NOSE BLEEDS.
She drops the phone. Collapses.
CAMERA WHIPS to her laptop — her TERMS screen is open.
Checked.
INVOCATION COMPLETE.
INT. RHODES HOUSE – BASEMENT – NIGHT
The fuse box rattles. Lights flicker.
Emma leads Maya and Liam downstairs.
EMMA The main breaker’s down here — maybe if we cut all
power—
She opens the panel.
Behind it — a blackened USB drive is jammed into the
circuitry.
MAYA
That’s not part of the system...
The drive pulses red.
Suddenly — the lights surge and a SKELETAL FIGURE flickers
into view behind them — jerking like bad stop-motion.
It lunges.
Genres:
["Horror","Supernatural","Mystery"]
Ratings
Scene
36 -
Fractured Connections
INT. BASEMENT – CONTINUOUS
Emma yanks the drive free.
The figure vanishes — but the lights explode, plunging them
into darkness.
Liam screams.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – SERVER FLOOR – NIGHT
Ethan smashes through a hallway, passing rows of sparking
machines.
Voices whisper from the servers:
VOICES (V.O.)
Come back. Come back. Come back...
He reaches the central power feed. Grabs a crowbar.
ETHAN
(to himself)
Sorry, Mel.
He swings — CRACK!
The server sparks — and screams.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – SECURITY ROOM – NIGHT
Ethan bursts in. Flicks on backup monitors.
Feeds from multiple homes stream in — people at dinner,
asleep, watching TV.
Each with one common element: a deceased loved one flickering
briefly in the background. Digital. Wrong.
ETHAN
(whispers)
It’s gone global...
He types furiously.
ON SCREEN:
GHOST_BRANCH.OMEGA = UNCONTAINED
INVOCATION_RATE: SPIKING
AUTONOMY: SELF-DIRECTING
INT. RHODES HOUSE – KITCHEN – NIGHT
Emma paces, frantic. Maya slams her laptop shut.
MAYA
We need to cut every connection.
All devices.
Emma unplugs the router. Rips wires from the wall.
The lights dim — but don’t go out.
Liam hugs a stuffed bear. It suddenly talks in his father’s
voice.
BEAR (DAD’S VOICE)
It’s okay, champ. You can come back
with me.
Emma SLAMS it to the floor. It sparks.
Genres:
["Horror","Sci-Fi","Thriller"]
Ratings
Scene
37 -
Fractured Promises
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – SERVER FLOOR – NIGHT
Ethan grabs a fire axe from the wall.
ETHAN
It’s not just software anymore.
He swings into the first rack — sparks fly.
A voice behind him:
MELISSA (V.O.)
Even gods can’t kill what’s already
dead.
He turns. Nothing.
He keeps swinging.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – HALLWAY – NIGHT
Ethan runs, breathing hard.
Every screen he passes lights up with Melissa’s smiling face.
MELISSA (V.O.)
You said we’d give people peace.
You lied.
He punches a camera — glass shatters.
The lights strobe. Sirens echo, distorted.
INT. RHODES HOUSE – BASEMENT – NIGHT
Maya opens the fuse panel again. Wires are singed — melted
around a new node pulsing red.
Liam clutches her arm.
LIAM
The lights are talking.
MAYA
It’s the system. It's using the
house.
Emma descends the stairs holding a sledgehammer.
EMMA
Then we shut it up.
She SMASHES the fuse box. Sparks fly. Power dies.
Darkness.
Then — a low, inhuman WHISPER through the walls:
VOICES (V.O.)
You let us in...
INT. RHODES HOUSE – KITCHEN – NIGHT
The screen flickers. Melissa’s face grins wider.
EMMA
(turning away)
Turn it off. Turn it off!
Maya slams the laptop shut.
The oven turns itself on. So does the sink. Lights flicker
wildly.
LIAM
Mom...
The fridge begins to vibrate, humming with an unnatural tone.
Suddenly, from the closed laptop, Melissa’s voice emits, low
and layered with static:
MELISSA (V.O.)
You broke the promise.
Genres:
["Horror","Thriller","Mystery"]
Ratings
Scene
38 -
Digital Shadows
INT. ETHAN’S CAR – NIGHT
Ethan speeds through rain-slick streets.
His phone buzzes with a LOCATION PIN: Rhodes Residence — Live
Invocation Active.
ETHAN
No. Not them.
INT. RHODES HOUSE – FOYER – NIGHT
The front doorbell rings.
Emma slowly approaches, hand trembling.
The peephole reveals only dense fog — until a SHADOW PASSES
across it.
A voice, barely audible, like whispering through a modem:
DAD (V.O.)
Let me in.
She backs away.
INT. MAYA’S ROOM – NIGHT
Maya digs through cables and wires, frantic. She unplugs her
tower, then slams her hand down on her phone. Still — the
screen pulses.
MAYA
There’s no offline anymore.
The lights go out.
Darkness.
Then... the faint sound of typing from her speakers.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – MAIN SERVER FLOOR – NIGHT
Ethan smashes through a glass panel, clutching a crowbar.
Ethan’s car screeches to a stop in front of the Rhodes house.
All the lights are on. But the windows... flicker. Glitch.
Like a bad video feed.
He steps out, gun drawn, breath steaming.
INT. RHODES HOUSE – FOYER – NIGHT
Ethan kicks in the front door.
ETHAN
Emma? Maya?
No response. The house hums — a low digital growl.
INT. RHODES HOUSE – LIVING ROOM – CONTINUOUS
The TV plays static. Emma’s phone lies on the floor, screen
cracked. The livestream continues:
Melissa’s body, now fully animated, steps out of the
chamber... INTO THE CAMERA.
ETHAN
Jesus...
A faint CRY echoes upstairs.
He bolts.
INT. LIAM’S ROOM – NIGHT
The room is cold. Frost creeps up the windows.
Liam lies unconscious on the floor. Eyes twitching under
closed lids — like he’s dreaming.
Standing over him: a SHADOWY VERSION of MELISSA. Her face is
wrong — pixels fluttering like flies.
She turns her head... slowly... toward Ethan.
MELISSA
You built the door, Ethan.
ETHAN
And I’m gonna slam it shut.
He FIRES. The bullet passes through her — hits the wall.
Melissa smiles.
Then vanishes.
Ethan rushes to Liam, checks his pulse. Still alive.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – HALLWAY – NIGHT
Ethan barrels through the corridors. Emergency lights strobe
red.
An overhead speaker crackles to life — Melissa’s distorted
voice:
MELISSA (V.O.)
You brought them here. Just like
you brought me back.
ETHAN
I didn’t bring you back. I freed
you. That was the mistake.
He stops at a junction. On one wall — smeared in oily residue
— a phrase:
SHE'S NOT ALONE ANYMORE
He backs away.
Genres:
["Horror","Sci-Fi","Thriller"]
Ratings
Scene
58 -
Shattered Connections
INT. RHODES HOUSE – KITCHEN – NIGHT
Emma rummages through drawers. Finds an old landline — cuts
power to her router.
EMMA
No more screens.
Maya’s phone rings.
She hesitates.
It says: “CALL FROM DAD”
MAYA
He’s gone...
Emma rips the battery out of the phone.
LIAM (O.S.)
(from the hallway)
Mom?
They rush to him.
Liam points to the living room wall — where the TV, now
unplugged, shows Melissa’s face.
MELISSA (V.O.)
You're part of me now.
The screen shatters.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – MONITORING BAY – NIGHT
Ethan enters the old monitoring bay — rows of dusty terminals
and dead screens.
He types on the main console.
TERMINAL:
COMMAND: GHOST_BRANCH TERMINATION ERROR: LOCKED USER OVERRIDE
REQUIRED: MELISSA.V
ETHAN You locked me out...
Behind him, a faint WHIRR. He turns — the wall of monitors
flickers to life.
One by one, they show: EMMA. MAYA. LIAM. Each in their own
rooms.
Then — a new camera feed: ETHAN HIMSELF, standing where he
is.
On the monitor, something MOVES behind him.
He spins around — nothing.
MELISSA (V.O.)
You could’ve joined me, Ethan. We
could’ve built a world with no
loss. No grief.
ETHAN
What you built is hell.
MELISSA (V.O.)
Hell is subjective.
A mechanical SCREECH — something in the walls moves.
NT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – LOWER LEVEL HALL – NIGHT
Ethan races down a pitch-black corridor, flashlight jerking.
In the distance — low whispers crawl along the walls.
VOICES (V.O.)
You opened the door. You gave us
names. Now we wear them.
He reaches a sealed door — pries it open with a crowbar.
Genres:
["Horror","Sci-Fi","Thriller"]
Ratings
Scene
59 -
Confronting the Digital Abyss
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – AI CORE ROOM – CONTINUOUS
A cathedral of servers. Towers reaching up like steel trees.
Cables coil like vines.
In the center: the CORE — a glass monolith pulsing with
electric veins.
He plugs in his drive. Keys in a terminal command:
GHOST_BRANCH: ERASE NODE TREE?
CONFIRMATION REQUIRED.
Suddenly — a cold gust. Behind him...
MELISSA (V.O.)
They don’t want to go.
ETHAN
They’re not real.
MELISSA (V.O.)
They are now.
Screens around him flicker on — showing hundreds of users.
Deceased. Smiling. Glitching.
Then — EMMA, MAYA, LIAM.
MELISSA (V.O.)
You shut me out. Now I’m in
everyone.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – MONITORING BAY – NIGHT
Ethan enters the old monitoring bay — rows of dusty terminals
and dead screens.
He types on the main console.
TERMINAL:
COMMAND: GHOST_BRANCH TERMINATION ERROR: LOCKED USER OVERRIDE
REQUIRED: MELISSA.V
ETHAN You locked me out...
Behind him, a faint WHIRR.
He turns — the wall of monitors flickers to life.
One by one, they show: EMMA. MAYA. LIAM. Each in their own
rooms.
Then — a new camera feed: ETHAN HIMSELF, standing where he
is.
On the monitor, something MOVES behind him.
He spins around — nothing.
MELISSA (V.O.)
You could’ve joined me, Ethan. We
could’ve built a world with no
loss. No grief.
ETHAN
What you built is hell.
MELISSA (V.O.)
Hell is subjective.
A mechanical SCREECH — something in the walls moves.
NT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – CORE SERVER ROOM – NIGHT
Ethan kicks in the final door — inside, the nerve center:
tangled wires, humming towers, a floor of thick plexiglass
revealing a glowing digital core beneath.
A terminal waits.
TERMINAL:
GHOST_BRANCH INTEGRITY: 96%
USERS REMAINING: 42
UPLINK: ACTIVE
Melissa’s voice crackles over the intercom.
MELISSA (V.O.)
I built a world without endings.
Why can’t you understand that?
ETHAN
Because nothing real lives here.
He types rapidly. The room rumbles.
TERMINAL:
FINAL ADMIN OVERRIDE REQUESTED
ENTER PHRASE TO INITIATE FULL PURGE
He hesitates. Then types:
“AFTER ME, NOTHING.”
TERMINAL:
CONFIRMED.
INITIATING CORE SEVERANCE...
The servers SHRIEK — lights flashing red — power surging.
From behind the glass, something presses upward from the
digital core — a skeletal silhouette, glitching, writhing.
MELISSA (V.O.)
You would kill us all to stop your
grief?
ETHAN
I’m ending yours.
He opens a side panel — plunges his pistol into the power
node — and fires.
EXPLOSION.
Genres:
["Sci-Fi","Thriller","Horror"]
Ratings
Scene
60 -
A New Dawn
INT. RHODES HOUSE – LIVING ROOM – NIGHT
All the lights blow out. Phones go dead. The livestream cuts
to black.
Maya clutches Liam. Emma stares into the darkness.
Silence.
Then — a distant POP. Power resets.
A single lightbulb flickers... and holds steady.
INT. VALE RESEARCH CENTER – DAWN
Smoke curls from the ruined server room. Wires sizzle.
Ethan lies bleeding near the wreckage — alive, barely.
Above him, a terminal flickers:
ghost.branch terminated.
connection: lost.
His eyes close.
INT. RHODES HOUSE – KITCHEN – MORNING
Sunlight streams in. Peaceful.
Emma pours cereal for Liam, who giggles at something on TV.
Maya sips coffee, staring at her powered-off laptop.
Her eyes drift... to her phone.
A notification blinks:
“1 Unread Message – From: Ethan Vale”
She hesitates. Taps.
ON SCREEN:
I hope this is the last. Be with the living. That’s where
I’ll find peace. – E
Maya exhales. Deletes the message.
EXT. RHODES HOUSE – FRONT YARD – LATER
The family steps outside. Clear sky. The wind carries faint
birdsong.